Ramadan (in Arabic:Ramadhan) – or Ramzan in several countries – is the ninth month of the Islamic (Hijri) calendar, established in the year 638. It is considered the most venerated, blessed and spiritually-beneficial month of the Islamic year. Prayers, fasting, charity, and self-accountability are especially stressed at this time; religious observances associated with Ramadan [...]
Diwali (also called Deepavali) is a major Hindu, Jain and Sikh festival/celebration. Known as the "Festival of Lights," it symbolises the victory of good over evil, and lamps are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for mankind.
The reason for celebrating Diwali or Deepawali (lines of earthen lamps) is the return of Lord [...]
In a glorious career spanning over more than three decades, Amitabh Bachchan has tasted phenomenal success. He has been appreciated, revered and even worshipped in India and abroad. Most of his contemporaries or immediate successors, however successful they might have been, have either bid adieu to the industry or joined/rather forced to join an [...]
The Indian Institute of Technology has
made it to the league of best universities in the world while Oxbridge
claimed second and third place in a survey of top 100 universities in
the world published on Wednesday.
Both Cambridge and Oxford were beaten by
the American ‘Ivy League’ rival Harvard while two British universities
leapfrogged over US rivals - [...]
